Browsing by Subject "Economics"
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Bailiwicks, locality, and religion - 3 elements in an irish dail constituency election
(Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1970)This article is essentially a case study of voting patterns in an Irish Dail Constituency. But in this analysis we also deal with a larger question: how a stable party system exists in a constituency characterized by ... -
The Banking Sector and Recovery in the EU Economy
(ESRI, 2011)The financial crisis of the last three years has seen a dramatic change in the EU financial sector. Since the early 1990s, with the completion of the internal market, there had been a growing trend towards an EU financial ... -
The Banking Sector and Recovery in the EU Economy
(2010)Banks within Europe have become larger and more international. We use a micro data set to investigate the impact of size on banks Net Interest Margin and show larger banks lower borrowing costs for firms which raises ... -
Beginnings of state care for mentally ill in ireland
(Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1970)The purpose in this paper is to examine the background and development of state care for the mentally ill in Ireland. Today, with a rapidly growing awareness of the needs of people with psychiatric problems, many agencies, ... -
Birth under-registration in the republic-of-ireland during the 20th-century
(Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1982)Precis: The efficiency of birth registration in Ireland is investigated in this article by comparing the number of registered births with Census age-distributions in the period 1916-1971. It is argued that there was a ... -
Budget Perspectives 2012
(ESRI, 13/10/2011)Over the last decade Irish tax policy has undergone dramatic shifts. As the economy boomed in the early 2000s, income tax rates were reduced, tax credits were increased and the standard rate band was widened. Social welfare ... -
Budget Perspectives 2013
(ESRI, 27/09/2012)Welcome: Frances Ruane, Director, ESRI Macroeconomic Context for Budget 2013 David Duffy (ESRI) Fiscal Policy for 2013 and Beyond John FitzGerald (ESRI ) Benefit Integration in the UK: An Ex Ante Analysis ... -
Building a Fairer Taxation System: The Working Poor and the Cost of Refundable Tax Credits
(Social Justice Ireland, 2010)This study addresses two key issues in Irish social and economic policy. These are: (i) the need to reform and develop our taxation system so that it becomes fairer and; (ii)the need to address the issue of the `working ... -
Built-in flexibility of taxation and stability when tax liabilities respond with a time lag .1. Comment
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1976)In the October 1975 issue of The Economic and Social Review, D. J . Smyth examined the built-in stability of a system when tax liabilities are a lagged function of income. Taking an unlagged and a distributed lag consumption ... -
Built-in flexibility of taxation and stability when tax liabilities respond with a time lag .2. Reply
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1976)In my earlier paper (Smyth, 1975b) I combined a distributed lag or permanent income consumption function with a lagged tax function. Bradley (1976) disputes my finding that short, two-period, oscillations may result and ... -
Carrots without Sticks: The Impacts of Job Search Assistance in a Regime with Minimal Monitoring and Sanctions
(ESRI, 2011-09-26)This paper uses a high quality longitudinal dataset to assess the impact of an active labour market intervention consisting of referral for interview plus Job Search Assistance (JSA) with the public employment service in ... -
Checking the Price Tag on Catastrophe: The Social Cost of Carbon Under Non-linear Climate Response
(ESRI, 29/06/2011)Research into the social cost of carbon emissions ? the marginal social damage from a tonne of emitted carbon ? has tended to focus on ?best guess? scenarios. Such scenarios generally ignore the potential for low-probability, ... -
Climate Policy Under Fat-Tailed Risk: An Application of Dice
(ESRI, 2011)Uncertainty plays a significant role in evaluating climate policy, and fat-tailed uncertainty may dominate policy advice. Should we make our utmost effort to prevent the arbitrarily large impacts of climate change under ... -
Climate policy, interconnection and carbon leakage: the effect of unilateral UK policy on electricity and GHG emissions in Ireland
(ESRI, 10/06/2013)This paper examines the effect on Ireland?s Single Electricity Market (SEM) of the UK?s unilateral policy to implement a carbon price floor for electricity generation based on fossil-fuel. We simulate electricity markets ... -
Combining Public Sector and Economic Reform
(2012)This paper argues that it is important for public sector reform to be undertaken in tandem with economic reform because the two reform agendas overlap. Ignoring the overlap could lead to services being delivered efficiently ... -
Comments on the weighted regression approach to missing values
(Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1983)Abstract: These comments relate to those methods of dealing with missing values of explanatory variables in regression analysis that first "complete" the data by inserting estimates derived from regressions of explanatory ... -
Commercialization in west of ireland agriculture in the 1890s
(Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1983)Abstract: The "sale of farm products ratio" indicator is used in this paper to establish the extent to which the agricultural economy of the West of Ireland and, in particular, the economy of the smaller landholders was ... -
Commuting Behaviour and Car Ownership in Ireland
(ESRI, 2010)Rapid economic, demographic and social change in Ireland over the past fifteen years, with associated increases in car dependence and congestion, has focused policy on encouraging more sustainable forms of travel. Data for ... -
Comovements in Government Bond Markets: A Minimum Spanning Tree Analysis
(Elsevier, 2010)The concept of a minimum spanning tree (MST) is used to study patterns of comovements for a set of twenty government bond market indices for developed North American, European, and Asian countries. We show how the MST and ... -
Comparing Public and Private Sector Pay in Ireland: Size Matters
(ESRI, 31/01/2013)